REFUSING MY RELIGION Co-Director Michael Dorian was quoted in The Guardian by reporter Becky Garrison. In her article titled: Conservatives’ quagmire: the war on Christmas
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‘REFUSING MY RELIGION’ in Becky Garrison’s article for the Washington Post today.
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Leaving religion but finding community
By Becky Garrison
Since the Clergy Project established an online presence in 2011, this confidential resource for active and former clergy who no longer hold supernatural beliefs has grown from 52 to 470 members. Presently 80 percent or their members are based in the United States with the majority of these ex-clergy coming from evangelical and pentecostal traditions. While filming Refusing My Religion, a documentary about these religious leaders who’ve lost their faith and become atheist activists, co-directors Michael Dorian and Marc Levine documented a grassroots-level development of “godless congregations” (based on a Christian model) to provide people who’ve left religion with the “sense of community” they miss once they leave their churches. Click for the rest of the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/07/10/leaving-religion-but-finding-community/